Key facts
- Planet
- Moon
- Symbol
- Chariot, crescent moon
- Day
- Monday ( dies Lunae )
- Temples
- Aventine Hill , Palatine Hill
- Siblings
- Sol , Aurora
- Greek
- Selene
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- literary character
- Gender
- female
- Sibling
- Sol
- Image
- Clipeus Selene Terme.jpg
- Said to be same as
- Moon
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- different from
- Selene
- Commons category
- Luna (mythology)
- worshipped by
- imperial cult of ancient Rome
- domain of saint or deity
- Moon
- iconographic symbol
- biga
- name in native language
- Luna
- nickname
- siderum regina bicornis
- described by source
- Pauly–Wissowa
Sources (1)
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Encyclopedic overview
In ancient Roman religion and mythology, Luna (Latin: Lūna [ˈluːna]) is the divine embodiment of the Moon. She is often presented as the female complement of the Sun, Sol, conceived of as a god. Luna is also sometimes represented as an aspect of the Roman triple goddess (diva triformis), along with Diana and either Proserpina or Hecate. Luna is not always a distinct goddess, but sometimes rather an epithet that specializes a goddess, since both Diana and Juno are identified as moon goddesses.
In Roman art, Luna attributes are the crescent moon plus the two-yoke chariot (biga). In the Carmen Saeculare, performed in 17 BC, Horace invokes her as the "two-horned queen of the stars" (siderum regina bicornis), bidding her to listen to the girls singing as Apollo listens to the boys.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Luna” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.